Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg are a Jewish married couple living in
New York in the last days of November 1938. Phillip is
obsessed with his job at a Wall Street bank, where he works on
foreclosing.

Philip and Sylvia rarely spend quality time together until
Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralyzed from the waist down
after reading about the events of Kristallnacht in the newspaper.
Dr. Harry Hyman is called in to help and concludes that Sylvia's
paralysis is psychosomatic.

Sylvia reveals
to Dr. Hyman the problems in her personal life, in particular,
her marriage. After an argument with his boss, Philip suffers
a stroke. While he is dying, he and Sylvia finally
confront each other about their feelings. Upon Philip’s
death, Sylvia is cured of her
paralysis.

Cast
Characters

Mark
Thomas
Phillip Gellburg

Yve
Price
Sylvia Gellburg

Claire
Williams
Margaret Hyman

Vic
Mills
Dr. Harry Hyman

Melanie
Denholme
Harriet

Graham J.
Evans
Stanton Case

More images of the production can be viewed here -
it is currently a work in progress.

Here is a review of the show,
written by Helen Morgan of the South Wales
Argus:

Althoughfrequently
performing black comedies or light-hearted romps, this group
isnever afraid to pull out all the stops and
tackle much more difficult material,with the same
degree of dedication and enthusiasm as
always.

Playing to a full house, composed
largely of students studying Broken Glass as an exam text, a small
but extremely versatile cast take on this serious, though
occasionally humorous play, with its theme of American
Jewishness.

MarkThomas does an
excellent job as central character Philip Gellburg, whose
wifeSylvia (Yves Price) is suffering from paralysis,
apparently after reading aboutthe
anti-semitic attacks and treatment of Jews in
Berlin.

VicMills gives a
powerful performance as the very confident and masculine Dr
HarryHyman, who is attempting to bring back feeling
to Sylvia's legs.

Asthe play
progresses and Dr Hyman unravels the couple's personal and sex
life,we start to realise there is far more to this
couple's problems than meet theeye - many of
them tied up with Phillip's perception of what it is to be aJewish man.

Theaction all
takes place in just a couple of rooms, with a sparse set, but
thereis plenty of pace here and director Neil Maidman
ensures that the audience'sinterest never
wanes.